You may arrange a visit to the library. Library materials circulate only to FWS employees and NCTC students and staff. We provide interlibrary loan lending of our materials so request items via your home libraryother library using the interlibrary loan process. You are welcome to view the FWS Conservation Library Discovery Service for interlibrary loan purposes.
Yes, absolutely. Our primary mission is to serve our FWS employees while we service the training needs of our NCTC staff and students. Please see all the resources available to FWS and NCTC users here.
The FWS Conservation Library collection includes a number of older publications so please check the FWS Conservation Library Discovery Service first.
Please submit a list of the materials you wish to donate including author, title and copyright year. We will respond by checking off all items we would like to add to the library collection. Please send via email to library@fws.gov or mail to:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Conservation Training CenterOnce we have determined what the library could use please use the above address for shipping. If you have difficulty paying for the shipping please let us know.
If you are an NCTC student, course leader or instructor and will pick up the material at the library then the library can supply you with a book or other material on an interlibrary loan basis.
Service employees not at NCTC:
If you request material that is not in the Conservation Library, we can find you a copy at another library, receive and process before then FedExing it to you at your field station. of our many only refer you to another library near your office which has the material you need.
Note: journal articles from journals to which we do not subscribe can be requested directly from our discovery service using the following instructions or send an email to the library.
Please be aware that if you are unable to return a loaned book on time (i.e. before its due date as established by the home library), your FWS program is subject to be billed any fees incurred as a result. FWS employees that do not return ILL books by the home library's due date will be prohibited from utilizing the ILL program for a six month period of time. After that, there will be a six month probationary period during which the FWS employee's account will be closely monitored by USFWS Conservation Library staff to ensure timely return of interlibrary loaned materials.
Summaries of Federal and State wildlife laws are available here. The actual text of the laws themselves can be retrieved at FDSys (GPO)
Check out the Environmental Conservation Online System (ECOS) for the current status of all endangered and threatened species. Go to CITES as well to view their listings.
The NCTC Museum/Archives houses films, photos, and documents chronicling the rich heritage of wildlife conservation.
A changing museum and state of the art research archive help the public, researchers and professional conservationists better understand the rich history of American wildlife conservation. An excellent chronology is provided at the Library of Congress' American Memory Historical Collections: The Evolution of the Conservation Movement 1850-1920.
The Audubon Society has a list of "Conservation Champions" here.